knew it, didn’t fight it until it was uncontrollable. Houses and lives were lost. But at least the money faucet was turned wide open after it was too late.
Interagency wildfire management and training is something that states and federal agencies have been doing as standard operating procedures since the 1980s. We all share personal and equipment resources, no matter the jurisdiction. Regional dispatch centers coordinate movements of resources around the country. The staging of resources is based on large fire risks at a particular time of year and based on ground conditions. Many of those fires that you show are actually insignificant as far as risk goes. For example, my region (Arizona and New Mexico) is experiencing record moisture for this season and those low severity fires are being managed for beneficial purposes to reduce fuels and rejuvenate vegetation.It doesn't look like there is much of a trend to me. Fwiw, the current fire has to get several times larger to be the top on this list.
List of fires in Canada - Wikipedia
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Instead of the administration saying it's caused by x, it might make more sense to coordinate states to send firefighters and equipment before the fire season in the NW gets going full steam. But, that would mean they'd have to solve a problem not just use it for politics.
Oh, I know that some are going now, but that could have started weeks ago.
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Obviously, I was talking about helping Canada instead of saying that global warming is the cause. Literally, the fire has been going for almost 3 months.
It doesn't. It's a convenient scapegoat that might help the left side get what they want.
The wild land fire agencies do help internationally, but they have to be requested government to government. Apparently Canada hasn’t done this. Also, many large fires in heavy fuels go for a month or more before containment. That is common here in the western U.S. and just may be the case in Canada. Often fire spread is contained, but heavy fuels inside the fire take awhile to burn out. Just part of the process. Wildfires aren’t “extinguished” like structure fires, they are contained by removing fuels and building fire line to stop fire spread, and the interior fuels must burn out over time.
Absolutely. Forest fires started on private land nearly always get out ASAP. Federal lands, not so much. I wonder if there’s a correlation?
I sold my place in Shelburne County NS, 4 years ago.
That’s a baby. In one year alone 2020, IIRC, we had a million acres on fire in Oregon. The very large majority of it Federally owned.
You seem to think nobody knows about fires except for you or how coordination works while you have a very low bar for our government. I can ponder why, but I don't want to make assumptions.
